Erect men/undulating women : the visual imagery of gender, "race" and progress in reconstructive illustrations of human evolution
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Erect men/undulating women : the visual imagery of gender, "race" and progress in reconstructive illustrations of human evolution
, c1997
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Based on intensive study of human origin illustrations, responses from students and colleagues and research into reconstructive illustration and feminist criticism of Western art, this ground-breaking book traces the subtle ways in which paleoanthropological conventions have influenced and have shifted in the creation of these illustrations. Wiber reveals that embedded meanings in these illustrations go beyond gender to include two other ubiquitous themes â racial superiority and upward cultural progress. Underlying all these themes, she found a basic conservatism in the paleoanthropological approach to evolutionary theory. Erect Men/Undulating Women provides a deeper understanding of popularized illustrations of human origins, but, more importantly, it encourages readers to gain a sensitivity to the ways in which Western culture constructs "scientific" findings that are compatible with its deeply held beliefs and values.
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Table of Contents for Erect Men/Undulating Women: The Visual Imagery of Gender, âRaceâ and Progress in Reconstructive Illustrations of Human Evolution by Melanie G. Wiber List of Figures Acknowledgments ONE: Of Gender, âRace,â Progress and Evolution: Human Evolution Reconstructive Illustration TWO: Contested Knowledge in the Human Evolution Story Field: Man the Hunter versus Woman the Gatherer THREE: Reconstructive Human Evolution Illustrations: Utilizing Western Art Conventions in a Contested Story Field FOUR: Gender: The Ubiquitous Story Operator FIVE: Conflation and the Significant Other: Racism and Codes of the Primitive SIX: Window or Mirror? Primates and Foragers: Analogies of the Pre-Cultural Life SEVEN: Progress: Inevitable as Moral Rewards- The Ultimate Story Operator 153 EIGHT: Lucy as Barbie Doll: Eroticism in the Human Evolution Meta-Narrative NINE: The Commodification of Human Evolution: Selling a Story Field through Illustrations TEN: Conclusions and Future Directions for Research Figures 241 References Cited 257 Index 279 Figures References Cited Index
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